{"id":9325,"date":"2020-06-18T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:00:12","slug":"yet-more-things-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2020\/06\/18\/yet-more-things-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more things I learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/blog\/2020\/02\/20\/what-i-learned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about<\/a> a project that my wife and I started last year. The idea was to think about what we had learned each day, record it and discuss from time to time. I shared some interesting examples of snippets of trivia \u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today I would like to share another selection, having filtered out the personal or anachronistic ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are no bumble bees in Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Picpoul is a grape variety from Languedoc.<\/li>\n<li>There are 2 kinds of memory. Implicit like riding a bike; explicit like what did you have for breakfast?<\/li>\n<li>Firing a rocket in orbit makes you go slower.<\/li>\n<li>In 16th century, dark clothes were a sign of wealth; it took more dye to make them.<\/li>\n<li>The Obama children were the result of in-vitro fertilization.<\/li>\n<li>Nike was the Greek goddess of victory.<\/li>\n<li>Cast iron is actually 50% scrap steel.<\/li>\n<li>Guan Vincenzo Gravina wrote: A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.<\/li>\n<li>A calliope is a steam-driven keyboard instrument.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We continue to observe that, in these unusual times, we are less receptive to learning new things. I hope that changes in due course &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colinwalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6579\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colin_walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6583\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinwalls.author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6591\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/facebook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6599\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I wrote about a project that my wife and I started last year. 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